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inquilineGreat to see Harvard fighting back. Note that "Harvard" here means Harvard professors (their AAUP chapter) along with the national <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/AAUP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AAUP</a>, not <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harvard</a> administration <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/12/aaup-lawsuit-funding-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/12/aaup-lawsuit-funding-review/</a><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesSo, if you were wondering whether there's anything hypothetical about the "chilling effect" all this fascist repression is designed to produce in folks who oppose the Trump regime, a recent Guardian article demonstrates that it's real and ongoing - not just for anti-genocide protestors and foreign students, but for US-born critics of the regime writing in college papers too:<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/student-journalists-remove-stories-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/student-journalists-remove-stories-trump</a>US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian speech"Fearing legal repercussions, online harassment and professional consequences, student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement.Editors at university newspapers say that anxiety among writers has risen since the arrest of the Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention fighting efforts to deport her. While the government has not pointed to evidence supporting its decision to revoke her visa, she wrote an op-ed last year in a student newspaper critical of Israel, spurring fears that simply expressing views in writing is now viewed as sufficient grounds for deportation.Ozturk is one of nearly a dozen students or scholars who have been seized by immigration officials since 8 March, when Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student and green card holder, was arrested and placed in deportation proceedings over his role in pro-Palestinian protests. Student editors report particularly acute anxieties among international students who have contributed to their newspapers, but say that requests to take down stories over fears of retaliation are coming from US citizens, too."The reality that no authoritarian regime wants dissidents to realize, is that they literally do not have the resources to police and punish *everyone* who opposes the state. What they rely on is cracking down on high profile targets that generate a lot of publicity, folks like Mahmoud Khalil, and Rumeysa Ozturk, to force everyone else to self censor, lest they be next. I'm not going to criticize the student writers for asking college newspapers at institutions that have shown no ability or willingness to protect them, to erase their critiques of the regime to protect their personal safety; very few people in our society are actually prepared to suffer the horrible consequences of a fascist police state targeting them personally, and a lot of people reading this would make the same decision in their shoes. What I will say however is that this response is exactly what the fascist Trump regime wants, and that's why it behooves the rest of society to give a fuck about the free speech rights of student protestors and journalists; and act in numbers large enough to protect us all while working to stop this fascist repression by any means necessary. <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentProtests</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Journalism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/IdeologicalPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IdeologicalPolicing</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceState</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MahmoudKhalil</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RumeysaOzturk</a>

Deborah Edwards-OñoroFour University of Michigan, Wayne State University international students sue US Department of Homeland Security.<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/04/11/university-michigan-wayne-state-international-students-homeland-security/83044822007/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/04/11/university-michigan-wayne-state-international-students-homeland-security/83044822007/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Michigan</a>

Alexander KarnMore student visas revoked for thought crime. Due process? As if. “Inside Higher Ed says that the majority of college officials say they’re unsure why the foreign-born students had their visas revoked or have yet to receive formal notification of the changes. Most have still not received any communications from immigration authorities.”<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/how-many-student-visas-revoked" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/how-many-student-visas-revoked</a>

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦"A huge silver lining is that this event has revealed the deep passion Canadians feel for our country and the values we hold sacred, including the freedom of expression," Griffin wrote.”Excellent news and the right decision. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VetMed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VetMed</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-avc-apologizes-1.7507766" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-avc-apologizes-1.7507766</a>

csNPR State of the World examines the trend of US academics fleeing the USA and Europeans recruiting them. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/1243870139/academics-fleeing-the-us-for-europe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/1243870139/academics-fleeing-the-us-for-europe</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoWow! I didn't known that McChesney was a rock critic once upon a time. RIP :-("Robert W. McChesney, the lion of anti-corporate media scholarship, is dead at the age of 72. He was, for decades, probably the most prominent academic critic of American media from the left, focused on all the ways our idealized vision of a “free press” was actually hampered by the power of big business, the wealthy, and government.McChesney came from my favorite subgenre of media scholars: those who had a career in working journalism before entering the hallways of academe. He was a sports stringer for UPI and — even more hardcore — an ace ad salesman. In 1979, he was founding publisher of The Rocket, the Seattle alt newspaper that would become the bible of the Pacific Northwest music scene, including being the first to write about Nirvana.1Ironically, his primary contribution to The Rocket’s editorial ethos seems to have been to convince its staffers to cover mainstream acts (AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Rush) alongside all the local indie bands they preferred — all “so that advertisers would believe that 100,000 people actually read our magazine…[we] participated in launching The Rocket not because we cared that much about music, but because we cared that much about publishing.” Not the early career you might expect from the man who’d become the country’s chief critic of corporate media ownership."<a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/robert-w-mcchesney-americas-leading-left-wing-critic-of-corporate-media-has-died/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/robert-w-mcchesney-americas-leading-left-wing-critic-of-corporate-media-has-died/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalEconomy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Media</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Journalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaOwnership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaOwnership</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomyofCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalEconomyofCommunication</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Universities</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

Katina RogersMy Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanities</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/neh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neh</a><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-doge-neh-funding-grants-canceled-fellowships.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-doge-neh-funding-grants-canceled-fellowships.html</a>

Katina RogersMy Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23humanities" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanities</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23highered" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23neh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neh</a> <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-doge-neh-funding-grants-canceled-fellowships.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">slate.com/news-and-pol...</a> <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-doge-neh-funding-grants-canceled-fellowships.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libr...</a>

Alexander Karn<a href="https://mas.to/@gleick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gleick</a> Watch unis fold on DEI and academic freedom. Then watch MAGA come for their endowments anyway. If you’re making deals with Trump, you’ve already lost the plot.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a>

Lance Eaton, PhDLast week, Antonia Levy & I got share our work-in-progress approach to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/OER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OER</a>, & <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/UDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UDL</a> at the NERCOMP (Northeast Regional Computing Program) conference--check out the session materials & our initial thoughts!<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/EdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdTech</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/FacDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FacDev</a> <a href="https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/blending-ai-oer-and-udl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/blending-ai-oer-and-udl</a>

Real Syntacticthis essay lays out some of what Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s platform to “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research” would do to the research enterprise in Canada. Of course it’s not just “science” that would be affected. Departments of history, philosophy, literatures, music would likely disappear. All uni curricula would be externally controlled. <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/04/10/Attacking-Science-Poilievre-Trump-Playbook/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/04/10/Attacking-Science-Poilievre-Trump-Playbook/</a> <a href="https://c18.masto.host/tags/canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canpoli</a> <a href="https://c18.masto.host/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a>

Brian Gettler"Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, has pledged to 'end the imposition of woke ideology in the allocation of federal funds for university research' should his party win the Canadian federal election on 28 April."Scholars allocate most research funding in Canada, even if the federal government sets priorities and establishes envelopes. Regardless, Poilievre's position is anything but reasssuring.<a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/canadian-election-top-conservative-candidate-vows-end-woke-ideology-science-funding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/canadian-election-top-conservative-candidate-vows-end-woke-ideology-science-funding</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a>

Trump Watch 👀Trump administration has frozen over $1.8 billion in federal funding for Cornell and Northwestern Universities amid a civil rights investigation. This move, affecting crucial national research,targets alleged antisemitism during campus protests. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23HigherEd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23CivilRights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-admin-pauses-1b-from-cornell-790m-from-northwestern-amid-civil-rights-investigation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.foxnews.com/us/trump-adm...</a> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-admin-pauses-1b-from-cornell-790m-from-northwestern-amid-civil-rights-investigation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trump admin pauses $1B from Co...</a>

cs<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harvard</a> and the Battle Over Higher Ed | <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OnTheMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnTheMedia</a> | WNYC Studios The attack on <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#universities</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/harvard-and-the-battle-over-higher-ed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/harvard-and-the-battle-over-higher-ed</a>

AnnaAnthro<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> Academic freedom in the US is under threat – universities of the world, unite! | Andrew Graham <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/universities-lies-truth-columbia-harvard-princeton" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/universities-lies-truth-columbia-harvard-princeton</a>

AnnaAnthro<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> White House freezes funds for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cornell</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Northwestern</a> universities in latest political shakedown <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> « Universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas,” the Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff wrote on 31 March.On Tuesday, the Trump administrationfroze over $1bn in funding for Cornell. »<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-administration-cornell-northwestern-funding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-administration-cornell-northwestern-funding</a>

Alexander KarnDear Leader expects—nay, demands—ideological conformity. Very American, very presidential, very liberating. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)The willing capitulation of most of US academic administrations to fascism should point the lesson of how important it is *not* to have wanna-be corporate types in higher ed administration. We need educators in the highest places in education.So much of the gallop towards fascism has been led, either appeasingly or enthusiastically, by US higher ed chancellors, deans, and trustees. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

Alexander KarnIt is possible to be disgusted and outraged and yet remain silent. Some would even call this prudence. But it is not possible to advance politics or defend principles without determined speech and action. There is obviously risk in the latter approach (do I make myself a target when I might have skated through?), but not so much as with quietly absorbing each blow with a vague hope it will be the last. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a>

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